Lamp-post



Z. T. HOBBS.

(Nd Model.)

LAMP POST.

No. 498,792. Patented June 6, 1893.

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ZAOHARIAH T. HOBBS, OF APPLE CREEK, OHIO.

LAM P-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,792, dated June 6, 1893.

' Application filed December 22, 1892 Serial No. 456,018. (No modelJ To all whom it natty concern:

Be it known that I, ZACHARIAH T. HOBBS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Apple Creek, in the county of \Vayne and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Lamp-Post, of which the following is a speciiication.

This inventionrelates to improvements in that class'of lamp-posts wherein an oil burner is used for lighting purposes; and the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide means for raising and lowering the casing or lantern with the burner so that the same may be quickly lighted or extinguished, cleansed, and replenished with oil or other suitable material, the parts being simple and eifective in their construction and operation and comparatively inexpensive in their manufacture.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a lamp-post and lantern, showing the improved construction applied in connection therewith, and the lantern shown loweredin dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the-improved device shown separated. Fig. 3 is a section on the line m-m of Fig. 1. Fig. at isa detail perspective view of a modified form of the device.

Similar nu merals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a lamp-post of any suitable form of construction and design, having the upper end thereof reduced to form a bearing 2, on which the lantern is loosely mounted.

In the body of the post 1 are secured a pair of horizontally-disposed arms 3, having rings or sleeves 4 at their outer ends arranged in alignment, said rings or sleeves 4 being constructed integrally or attached to the said arms 3.

The lantern 5 is constructed to hold a burner 6, and has a lower collar? that forms a socket, being made tubular and loosely fitted over the journal-bearing or post 2, at the top of the lamp-post 1.

Removably attached to the collar 7 is a clampingsleeve 8, supplied with a thumb nut 9, that extends transversely in a horizontal plane through openings in the engaging ficiently to disengage the collar 7 from the journal-bearing or pivot-post 2, when the said arm 11 is then turned to swing the lantern carrying the lamp around to a position opposite to that which it occupied when in engagement with the said hearing, when the said lantern may be lowered, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, fonany purpose that may he desired.

By means of the device hereinset forth,it will be seen that the use of a ladder or other analogous means of gaining access to the lamp is entirely dispensed with, and owing to the simplicity of the parts composing the improved construction, they may be Very quickly and readily operated in the manner. set forth, and thereby readily replace the use of a ladder.

In Fig. 4 a slightinodification of the de vice is shown, and consists in flattening the upper end of the arm 10, as at 12, and bonding said flattened portion around to form the clamping-sleeve 8. In this instance the thumbnut 9 is located on the'inner side adjacent to the arm 10 and passes through the flattened portion of the latter, and by this arrangement a very convenient and much cheaper construction is provided.

Slight changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In combination with a lamp-post having a reduced upper end to form a bearing, of a lantern provided with a lower socket which is removably mounted on the said bearing, and a depending rigid arm attached to the said lantern for disengaging the latter from the lamp-post. and lowering the same or raislng it to its position, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a lamp-post having a hearing at its upper end, of a lantern adapted to carry a burner and removably mounted on said bearing, an arm secured to said lantern and depending vertically, and rings supported in connection with the post through which the said arm passes, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a lamp-post having an upper reduced end to form abearing, and arms extending horizontally therefrom with rings at the outereuds thereof,a lantern with a lower collar removably fitted on said bearing, a clamping-sleeve reinovably engaging said collar, and an arm secured to said clampingsleeve and adapted to pass through and have Vertical movement in the said rings substantiall y as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ZAOHARIAH T. HOBBS.

Witnesses:

A. H. J AMESON, DANIEL LANGELL. 

